Environmental Tax Reform, Economic Growth, and Unemployment in an OLG Economy
In: FinanzArchiv, Band 63, Heft 1
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In: FinanzArchiv, Band 63, Heft 1
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This paper analyses tax policy measures within a two sector endogenously growing economy with elastic labour supply. Pollution is modelled as a side product of physical capital stock used as a primary production factor in the final good sector. The framework allows to analyse consequences of isolated tax changes or of a revenue neutral environmental tax reform for economic growth. Although pollution does not affect directly production processes, it can be shown that a higher pollution tax or a revenue neutral environmental tax reform boosts economic growth, whereas a tax on capital, consumption or labour reduces the long term growth rate of the economy.
In: FEEM Working Paper No. 9.2013
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In: Environmental politics, Band 21, Heft 6, S. 1013-1014
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Environmental politics, Band 21, Heft 6, S. 1013-1015
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: International Tax and Public Finance, Band 7, Heft 3
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In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 78, Heft 3, S. 487-519
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: Federal green paper 32
In: Journal of economics, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 287-316
ISSN: 1617-7134
Environmental externalities call for the use of environmental taxes to get prices right and thereby reduce environmental pressures. To date, however, the Spanish government makes only limited use of environmental taxes. One major reason for the policy reluctance are concerns on the regressive impacts of environmental taxes. We argue that policy can hedge against these concerns by means of revenue recycling. More specifically, we assess the impacts of a green tax reform where additional revenues are redistributed lump-sum to Spanish households on an equal-per-capita basis. Based on quantitative evidence from coupled microsimulation and computable equilibrium analyses we find that such a green tax reform leads to a substantial reduction in harmful emissions while having a progressive impact.
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In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 549-565
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5276
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In: PROBLEMY EKOROZWOJU – Problems of Sustainable Development, 2016, Vol. 12, No. 1, 87-99
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